Baseball loyalists cite the game's legendary numbers - 300 wins, 500 homers, 3,000 hits - as evidence of the sport's elegance, beauty,… — Stephen Rodrick Copy Share Image
I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. Then… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
[O]ur own bodies are changing every second. Yet we take the body to be our Self; and, speaking in terms of it,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the ongoing themes of my work of interest has been the idea of the inevitably of disintegration, of entropy, constant… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets… — David Milne Copy Share Image
How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a bed of… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Love isn't about perfection or beauty. It's not about how good you look in a bikini, or how perfect your skin is.… — Diane Alberts Copy Share Image
But that's the beauty of life: time is yours to keep and to change. Just a few minutes can be sufficient to… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“The rise of Milo, Trump and the alt-right are not evidence of the return of the conservatism, but instead of the absolute… — Angela Nagle Copy Share Image
The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
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Training-wise, I don't have an extreme plan I stick to. I know what I have to do, I know the goal. But… — Mark Cavendish Copy Share Image
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Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
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Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
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“No one knew his first name, and in general he was known in the country as Beauty Smith. But he was anything… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us. And there… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
In all the people I meet - though some may be governed by the self-centered nature and may not know their potential… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
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“Therefore, the task of all Christian scholarship- not just biblical studies- is to study reality as a manifestation of God’s glory, to… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Right, but you know, what would any of us lose by losing our possessions. Maybe we would gain something, like relationships, like… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
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“Yet her physical beauty was as strong a part of her character ... Its first and lasting impression was one of vitality… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
Time Bomb encapsulates everything I have learned over the years and wished I could find in a capsule collection. It's the absolute… — Lulu Copy Share Image
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Art, if it can be ascribed value, is most valuable when its beauty (and the beauty of the truth it tells) bewilders,… — Andrew Peterson Copy Share Image
“But the princess had never seen the beautiful expression of her eyes; the expression that came into them when she was not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
. . . maybe that's what life's all about: there's a lof of despair, but also the odd moments of beauty, where… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Any day God removes His hand from you, you are finished. Your hope and trust is only in Him. Your confidence, your… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
“[Human lives] are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual tranforms a fortuitous occurrence into a motif, which… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
![“[O]ur own bodies are changing every second. Yet we take the body to be our Self; and, speaking in terms of it, we say, “I am hungry” or “I am lame”; “I am black” or “I am white.” These are all just the conditions of the body. We touch the truth when we say, “My body aches,” implying the body…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/4d6/anonymous-1_ache_o-ur-own-bodies-are-changing-every-secon_244174.jpg)
![“Yet her physical beauty was as strong a part of her character ... Its first and lasting impression was one of vitality and endurance. That is to say, of power: a power as self-contained, as unoppressive as that of a splendid tree. [p. 10]” quote by Shirley Hazzard](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/6fd/shirley-hazzard-9123_beauty_yet-her-physical-beauty-was-as-strong-a_1896163.jpg)
![“. . . maybe that's what life's all about: there's a lof of despair, but also the odd moments of beauty, where time is no longer the same . . . [like] something suspended . . . an elsewhere . . . an always within a never. Yes, that's is, an always within a never.” quote by Muriel Barbery](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/91e/muriel-barbery-1092_beauty_maybe-that-s-what-life-s-all-about-there_1298084.jpg)
![“[Human lives] are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual tranforms a fortuitous occurrence into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of the individual's life. Anna [Karenina] could have chosen another way to take her life. But the motif of…” quote by Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/681/milan-kundera-120_beauty_human-lives-are-composed-like-music-guid_2017337.jpg)
